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Still living 3 years longer then the Americans.
American obesity may be the explanation here.
It's not obesity alone. All of our food contains an excessive amount of salt.
Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults
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#62Canadian healthcare is scary, and it's made worse by these politicians that always go to the US for care. The joke is that it's gotten so progressive that no one gets better, we all have to equally suffer. You can see clearly how this situation was mishandled.
Just chiming in here as a Canadian to express my immense satisfaction with our public health care. I just got an appointment for a minor issue in less than 24 hours. We recently had a baby and got top shelf care at a new hospital, better than the San Diego hospital my friend just had a baby at. All of it was free. Except the parking. Friggen' parking, amirite.
This case clearly has basically nothing to do with public 'health care' this is clearly political and health research related.
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#63Seems obviously BMAA but clearly the government don’t want to say so because it will destroy the lobster industry. We should all be terrified of BMAA and it’s here because of climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190124110834.h... Climate change is making the oceans and fresh water toxic and very deadly. We’ve seriously fucked the earth. Have you ever heard weasel words more reminiscent of a c…
Seems more likely the old mines in the area are causing the contamination with BMAA and that it is being consumed in shellfish. BMAA contamination is often associated with old flooded mine shafts, and there are several in the area where these people are getting sick, most of them upstream. Not sure why you're assuming this has anything to do with climate change. What could be the link there?
I do wish that "climate change" was not lumped into every environmental concern. For example, if painting one of the blades black on a windmill means the birds don't fly into it and die, then let's do it! Connecting it to a larger climate battle in order to win that war ("See wind power doesn't have that downside anymore, so more wind power to fight climate change") only gets in the way of solving the immediate problem.
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Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. The issue in this case is not the quality of care but the possibility that the provincial government is suppressing testing that might reveal that a naturally-produced neurotoxin has contaminated bottom-feeding crustaceans such as lobster.
> Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. If any of us are it's because of the pervasive anti-American propaganda spewn about. My GF is from the Czech Republic (where we currently are) and since we got here she's been getting all her standard check ups done. Here she can make an appointment only a day in advance (as opposed to weeks or months out in Canada), t…
Czech here. In theory, our healthcare system should work the way you described. In practice, a shortage of doctors is developing in less lucrative regions. You will always have good service in Prague or Brno, but elsewhere, you may run into problems.
This article shows a hundred-strong queue of patients waiting to register to a newly opened dentist office. Some of them waited overnight.
https://www.idnes.cz/ostrava/zpravy/lhotka-ostrava-fronta-zu...
Mind you, this is Ostrava, the third largest city in the country.
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> Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. If any of us are it's because of the pervasive anti-American propaganda spewn about. My GF is from the Czech Republic (where we currently are) and since we got here she's been getting all her standard check ups done. Here she can make an appointment only a day in advance (as opposed to weeks or months out in Canada), t…
I’m Canadian and am extremely happy with the state of healthcare. It has nothing to do with propaganda but personal experience. Please don’t claim to speak for me. Your view does not match the typical Canadian’s.
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Not nitpicking but to clarify a bit, that study says "Such blooms are a regular feature of Australian inland waterways and are increasing due to nutrient run-off, reduced river flows and climate change." So while climate change (i.e., warming in targeted areas) doesn't help, it's more of the final nail in a series of nails we've been driving into Mother Nature's heart. The idea we could be so negligent and abusive of…
The leading cause of toxic algae blooms like this is nutrient runoff. The leading cause of nutrient runoff is over-fertilization of industrialized farmland. I've never heard of climate change associated with these until now, but I've only worked tangentially with these phenomenon, and am not an expert.
> runoff is over-fertilization of industrialized farmland.
And I'd say that the leading cause of that is the increase of world population which necessitates the "industrialized farmland". In other words there's always a balance between more people on this planet vs more wild-life.
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> Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. If any of us are it's because of the pervasive anti-American propaganda spewn about. My GF is from the Czech Republic (where we currently are) and since we got here she's been getting all her standard check ups done. Here she can make an appointment only a day in advance (as opposed to weeks or months out in Canada), t…
Czech here. In theory, our healthcare system should work the way you described. In practice, a shortage of doctors is developing in less lucrative regions. You will always have good service in Prague or Brno, but elsewhere, you may run into problems. This article shows a hundred-strong queue of patients waiting to register to a newly opened dentist office. Some of them waited overnight. https://www.idnes.cz/ostrava/z…
Fair enough. We're in Karlovy Vary region and everything has seemed very efficient.
One thing I have noticed is that Czechs are very critical of their country, which to my eyes seems to function quite well, for what it's worth.
Canadians put up with far worse and yet will defend it. Also, our whole country has a doctor shortage. No sane doctor stays in Canada when the US pays multiples more...
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#69>> But in January, the province of New Brunswick is widely expected to announce that the cluster of cases, first made public last year after a memo was leaked to the media, is the result of misdiagnoses, which have mistakenly grouped unrelated illnesses together.
If they want to say that, I think they are obligated to also provide the correct diagnosis.
I hate when people say "we know it's not X" without proof and without a specific alternative.
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Not nitpicking but to clarify a bit, that study says "Such blooms are a regular feature of Australian inland waterways and are increasing due to nutrient run-off, reduced river flows and climate change." So while climate change (i.e., warming in targeted areas) doesn't help, it's more of the final nail in a series of nails we've been driving into Mother Nature's heart. The idea we could be so negligent and abusive of…
The leading cause of toxic algae blooms like this is nutrient runoff. The leading cause of nutrient runoff is over-fertilization of industrialized farmland. I've never heard of climate change associated with these until now, but I've only worked tangentially with these phenomenon, and am not an expert.
You also get algae blooms when the water is warmer, because algae grow faster in warmer water. This leads to less oxygen in the water and less mixing of water layers. Warmer water bodies often occur during drought and that often means more artificial irrigation... https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/climate-change-and-har...